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Noms de personnes latins dans l’Antiquité classique et dans les langues romanes
Latin Names of Persons in Classical Antiquity and Romance Languages

Author(s): Ioana-Rucsandra Dascălu
Subject(s): Language studies, Morphology
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: onomastics; motivation;conventions and recommendations of ILO;

Summary/Abstract: This article on onomastics and toponymy aims at showing the changes undergone by names of persons and places, from Classical Antiquity – to which purpose we have explained the names used in Classical Latin – to modern languages. If the classical languages of Antiquity witnessed a close semantic relation between the qualities or drawbacks of a person and the name assigned to him/her, the relation is non-motivated in modern languages. We have also followed the bidirectional relationship between anthroponomastics and toponymy – names of persons making up names of places, as well as names of places resulting in names of persons.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 47-52
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: French